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Railway Minister Suresh Angadi dies of coronavirus |
A four-time Lok Sabha MP from Karnataka's Belagavi, Suresh Angadi's
death is the first casualty in the Union Cabinet due to coronavirus.
Modi in his tributes said, he was an "exceptional Karyakarta, who
worked hard to make the party strong in Karnataka. He was a
dedicated MP and effective Minister." | | See Report |
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How to stop the orgy of killing by coronavirus: Vaccine, scientists not of
immediate help | | OPINION: When vaccines are still a distant possibility and a new
medicine is nowhere in sight, how will we deal with the ferocious
coronavirus rampaging the earth. We need to turn to the doctors who
have in the past few months gathered the necessary knowledge and
experience to deal with the new epidemic. They have started saving more
lives. How everyone, everywhere can benefit from their contribution is the
question. We have no functional networking mechanism for medical personnel. Trump was absolutely right when he said, he was cutting off funds to the WHO, the white elephant. | | See Report |
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Heparin: Breakthrough in research for medicine for coronavirus | | The latest development is that a medicine surrounding heparin may
emerge as the solution for coronavirus. Heparin is an anticoagulant. A
broad anti-viral treatment with heparin and heparin-like drugs may also
be the solution to all future zoonotic coronaviruses and other viral
pathogens.
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UK imposes up to 10,000 pound fine for violation of
coronavirus rules |
As there is another wave of coronavirus cases, Britain has
introduced a very high penalty for violators of
isolation rules. The penalty will come into force from
September 28. According to the new rule, people who have
symptoms or test positive must be in self-isolation for 10
days. Around 42,000 people have died of coronavirus in the
UK so far. | | See Report |
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Nasal decontamination by iodine reduces severity of corona
infection: Study |
SARS-CoV-2 initially infects ciliary cells of the nasal mucosa,
which becomes the ideal base of infection. A nasal
decontamination by iodine reduces the risk to the patient by
decreasing the viral load going to the lungs by deactivating
them in the nasal mucosa, the source. Since PVP-I rapidly
inactivates SARS-CoV-2, it can also play an adjunctive role in
mitigating viral transmission to other people. Droplets and
aerosols will be less infective.
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Poison letter addressed to Trump at White House intercepted |
The ricin letter addressed to White House was intercepted. Investigators
are looking into any terror angle. The mails addressed to the White House
is sorted in a facility that samples the air for suspicious substances. There
have been numerous such cases in the past too. Letters containing ricin
were sent to Obama, Bloomberg, Senators, judges etc. | | See Report |
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70% recovered corona patients present severe lung damages | |
Researchers undertook a study of 55 patients who were discharged
about three months earlier. Discharge is not the end of the story.
Convalescence in corona patients will be a drawn-out process.
Seventy per cent of the patients studied presented lung scans showing
severe damages. (Sometimes confused as reinfection.) They had elevated levels of D-dimer needing urgent pulmonary rehabilitation to restore the lung function. | | See Report |
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Ashok Gasti, 55, a first-time Rajya Sabha MP, dies of covid
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Ashok Gasti, a lawyer, rose through the ranks of the BJP from the
grass-roots in Karnataka. Manipal Hospital said he had severe
covid pneumonia and suffered multi-organ failure. He was on life
support in the ICU and died on Thursday night. "Shri Ashok Gasti
was a dedicated Karyakarta," Modi tweeted.
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Harsimrat Kaur quits Union Cabinet; Rift opens up in SAD-BJP
alliance |
The resignation of Harsimrat Kaur was announced by her husband
and SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal. The SAD has been under
pressure from farmers of Punjab who are against the Bills. While
the BJP claimed the Bills will empower the farmers, the Opposition parties said they would lead to abolition of the MSP. The SAD is the second party to have had serious differences with the BJP in recent times, after Shiv Sena. | | See Report |
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Panic grips Mumbai as prohibitory orders extended till month-end | |
The Maharashtra Government said there is no need to panic even as there was
scare in Mumbai as the social media began spreading rumours
about the new prohibitory orders and increasing cases of coronavirus.
The police said that in the face of the heightened threat of the
covid pandemic, the prohibitory order has been extended till
September 30. There are no new restrictions, they clarified.
Meanwhile, Mumbai recorded 2,411 new cases in the last 24
hours, taking the tally to 1,78,385, and 43 new deaths, the total
casualty going up to 8320.
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New Melania statue installed in her native place in Slovenia |
American First Lady Melania Trump's burnt wooden statue in her native
place in Slovenia has been replaced with a bronze one. The arson is suspected to
have been a part of an anti-Trump wave of violence at that time
spreading to other countries. It is a paradox that US President Donald
Trump, the author of the new American anti-immigration policy, is
married to an immigrant. Social media described the statue as a
scarecrow, trash, ashtray and worse. However, the little known, small
Sevnica town has become a tourist attraction. | | See Report |
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20 Clone Trains from Sept 21: What is the difference between Clone
Trains and additional or special trains? |
Clone trains are copy of the already operational trains run by the Indian
Railways. It is an additional train when the volume of waitlisted tickets
for a particular train is very high. In short, when the booking is full for a
train and the waiting list is too long (as usual), then an additional train
will be run to carry the waitlisted passengers. This is as simple as
running an additional bus when due to some reason there is huge rush on
a route. It is usually done by transport offices and even the Railways
also have been running additional or special trains during festivals and
summers from day one! What is new? A surplus bureaucracy justifying its
existence! | | See Report |
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YSR Congress MP Balli Durga Prasad Rao dies of coronavirus |
The YSR Congress MP was admitted to a hospital in Chennai three weeks
ago after he tested positive for the coronavirus. Balli Durga Prasad Rao
was 65. Rao became a TDP MLA in 1985. He joined YSRC in 2019. Rao
was School Education Minister in the Chandrababu Naidu Cabinet in the
undivided Andhra Pradesh during 1996-98.
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Another Indian woman worker dies of alleged torture in Saudi | | Yet another helpless Indian woman having had to go to Saudi Arabia in search of work as maid servant has reportedly died of physical and mental torture
by her employer, it has been alleged. However, the Indian Foreign Ministry has
said after an inquiry that she died of natural causes. |
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The rationing of oxygen to covid patients in Maharashtra is at the
rate of 12 litres per minute per patient in the ICU and 7 litres per
minute per patient in the wards while the doctors assert that a
covid patient on ICU/ventilator requires about 80 litres per minute
several times a day. The Government claims there is no shortage
in production. But short supply reportedly led to higher deaths. 
Forty three countries provide visa-on-arrival facility and 36
countries provide e-visa facility to Indian ordinary passport-holders, apart from the 16 which offer visa-free entry. 
If Governments are deciding and putting a cap on school fees, who will
pay the salaries? And there are several other heads of expenditure too, it is explained. Now with the onslaught of the corona pandemic, school education itself is at
the crossroads. It is no surprise the schools are on sale.
The brucellosis outbreak came from a leak at the Lanzhou biological
pharmaceutical factory, which produces brucella vaccines for animals. The
factory used expired disinfectants and sanitisers with the result, not all
bacteria were eradicated. The aerosols carried by the exhaust gas
from the factory spread in the neighbouring areas leading to the outbreak. 
